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The fatal crash rate for large trucks fell to 2.39 per 100 million miles in 1997 from 2.41 the year before, according to newly released statistics from the Federal Highway Administration.

Michael A. Meredith, the long-time president of the Oregon Trucking Assns., has joined American Trucking Associations to help guide and strengthen ATA’s relationship with the state associations in the next century.

Consolidated Freightways is the first trucking company to outsource a large segment of its information technology operations to IBM Global Services, a unit of International Business Machines Corp.

The federal government wants to retain financial reporting requirements for nearly 3,000 of the nation’s largest trucking companies, but it also may give carriers a way to keep the information private.

The Federal Highway Administration is proposing changes to driver medical examination forms that trucking interests say would let physicians perform additional tests at their discretion.

A dispute over the medical exams that Canadian truck drivers need to work in the U.S. may result in a long-awaited reciprocity agreement between the two countries.

Yellow Corp. will expand its regional less-than-truckload service in the Pacific Northwest and the West with the acquisition of Action Express of Boise, Idaho.

Canadian-owned Trimac Transportation will merge its petroleum-hauling operations in Oregon and Washington with Harris Transportation Co. of Portland, Ore.

Flatbed carrier Boyd Bros. Transportation is going west.

It could have been the title of a new horror extravaganza from Steven King: “Killer Trucks.” Think of it. Maniacal, masked marauders perched behind the wheels of gigantic semis, preying on innocent VW bugs and station wagons full of smiling children. Unfortunately, “Killer Trucks” wasn’t playing at your neighborhood cinema, it was on the editorial page of the Washington Post.